Required vs. Mandate — What's the Difference?

Needed; essential

An authoritative command or instruction.

Obligatory

A command or authorization given by a political electorate to the winner of an election.

Simple past tense and past participle of require

A commission from the League of Nations authorizing a member nation to administer a territory.

Necessary; obligatory; mandatory.

A region under such administration.

Necessary for relief or supply;

(Law) The specific directive issued by a reviewing court to a lower court, as in requiring the lower court to enter a new judgment or to conduct further proceedings consistent with the reviewing court's ruling.

Required by rule;

To assign (a colony or territory) to a specified nation under a mandate of the League of Nations.

To make mandatory, as by law; decree or require

An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.

(politics) The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.

(Canada) A period during which a government is in power.

(historical) An order by the League of Nations to a member nation to establish a government responsible for a conquered territory, as the colonies of Germany after World War I.

(historical) Such a territory.

(uncommon) man date: a date between two men.

To authorize.

To make mandatory.

An official or authoritative command, order, or authorization from a superior official to a subordinate; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.

An authorization to carry out a specific public policy, given by the electorate to their representatives; - it is considered to be implied by the election of a candidate by a significant margin after that candidate has campaigned with that policy as a prominent element of the campaign platform.

Authorization by a multinational body to a nation to administer the government and affairs of a territory, usually a former colony; as, termination of the British mandate in Palestine.

A rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation.

A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous.

A document giving an official instruction or command

A territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they ar able to stand by themselves

The commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory

Assign under a mandate;

Make mandatory;

Assign authority to